Quote Originally Posted by Kuwaitum View Post
This was discussed here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...the-marketward.

You're asking to kill the whole-sale/retail-sale method.. and promoting RMT/BOT system, they will overflow the markets and ALL of us will end up buying most mats from them for 1 gil (cheap yes, fun no, game ruined).
If we cite potential RMT abuse for the reason every time we can't have nice things, then we wouldn't have much of a game, would we? I mean heck, might as well remove the mail system, market boards, and ability to gather our own materials too.

All I know is this. When sellers have a full stack of items, they want to sell it all at the standard market price for 1 item x 99. But they can't because, a lot of the time, it is greatly discouraged as there are many items that buyers only need a small handful of, like raw gems (i.e. Ruby, Sapphire, Rubellite, etc.).

I know that, as a buyer, I personally would LOVE to only buy what I need from a stack of 99 HQ Fire Rocks.